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JOHN TIOKLE, OF WEST BROMWIOH, AND FREDERICK LEONARDT, OF

I-IANDSVORTH, COUNTY OF STAFFORD, ASSIGNORS TO EDVARD OAD- DIOK, OF WEST BROMVIOH, WILLIAM CREED, OF STROUD, AND ARNOLD THOMAS, OF NEVVNHAM, ENGLAND.

-FOLDING AND CR-EASING MACHINE.

SPEGIFICATIONfonning part of Letters Patent No, 341,361, dated May 4, 1886.

Application filed February 17, 1885. Serial Ibla-156,192. (No model.) Patented in England May 15, 1884, Nc. 7,743; in France Jan nary 22, 1885, No. 166,593; in Belgium Jannary, 1885, No. 67,655, and in GermanyyFebruai-y 8, 1885, No. 33,463.

To a/ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN TIcIiLE, of ,West Bromwich, in the county of Stafford, England, mechanical engineer and iron-founder, and

FREDERICK LEONARDT, of Handsworth, in the county of Stafford, England, merchant, subjects of the Queenl of Great Britain, have invented inew or improved folding or creasing machinery and ejecting apparatus, to be used to In making up packets of .powdered materials and other commodities for sale, (for which we have made application for Letters Patent in Great Britain on the th day of May, 1884, No. 7, 743; in France on the 22d day of Jan- 15 nary, 1885, No. 166,593; in Belgium on the 22d day of January, 1885, No. 67,655, and in Germany on the 8th February, 1885, No. 33,463,) of which the following is a specification.

Our invention consists of the construction and combination of the parts hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, of hand-worked machinery for folding, closing, or creasing the open ends of a 2 5 series of filled bag-like cases or wrappers contained in a divided mold or box, and also of apparatus for ejecting the filled and closed packets from the divided mold or boX.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an end elevation of the creasing or folding machine, with the divided mold containing the filled bags or cases in the channel or race on the top of a rising platform, the creasers and dividing-bars being represented in their withdrawn or non-acting positions. Fig. 2 represents a transverse vertical section of the machine, with the rising platform raised into position and the dividing-bars drawn forward into their acting positions between the 4o open ends of the several packets. Fig. 3 represents the same view as Fig. 2, with the back and front creasers brought into their acting positions for effecting the first two creases or folds of the several packets. Fig. e represents a side elevation of the parts as in Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 represents a plan, with the. back and front creasers returned to their non-acting position after having `effected the first two creases or folds. Fig. 6 represents a portion of the devices in Fig. 3, drawn to a larger scale. Fig. 7 represents a plan of the same. Fig. 8 represents a plan of the mold or box, drawn to a larger scale, exhibiting the lever arrangement by which the said mold is moved laterally in opposite directions for making the third and fourth creases or folds. Fig. 9 represents in plan a portion of the machine drawn to a larger scale, showing the dividingbars in their acting posit-ion, the baci; and front creasers having made the first two creases or folds.I Fig. 10 represents a vertical section of the parts in the position shown in Fig. 9. Fig. 11 represents in plan a portion of the machine drawn to a larger scale, showing the dividingbars in their acting position, the back and front creasers returned to their nonacting position, the mold or box having been moved laterally to the right, and the righthand iiaps or folds of the several packets drawn underneath the dividing-barsfor making the third creases or folds. Fig. 12 represents a vertical section of the parts in the4 position shown in Fig. 11. Fig. 13 represents a plan drawn to a larger scale, showing the dividingbars in the saine position as in Fig. 11, with the back and front creasers again brought into their acting position, ready to effect the fourth creases or folds. Fig. 14 represents a vertical section ofthe parts in the position shown in Fig. 13. Fig. 15 represents a plan, and Fig. 16 a section,of the same drawn toa larger scale, showing the dividing-bars and the back and front creasers in their acting positions, the mold or box having been moved laterally to the left and the left-hand flaps drawn under- 8 neath the back and front creasers, thus effecting the fourth creases and completing the creasing or folding of the tops of the several packets.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in Figs. 1 to 16, both inclusive.

In the said drawings, A designates the frame which supports the operative parts of the machine.

After the bags have been filled the mold b, containing them, is passed from the llingmachine into the channel or racea, Fig. l, onto the top of the rising platform d, when in its lowered position. The platform d is then raised by means of the levers d2 to the re quired height, as represented in Figs. 2 and 3, thus lifting the mold b into position between the side horizontal levers, h2 h3. (Best seen in Figs. l and 8.) The platform el is held in its raised position. by means of the spring-lever catch e', carrying the slidingadj ustable tooth el. Vhen the levers di are pressed down by the handle d", the distance rodor pin d between them first presses back thespring-lever catch e by acting upon the inclined tooth e2, and afterward engages under the said tooth in the manner shown in Fig. 3. After the mold I) has been raised between the levers 7a2 h3 the dividing-bars f, which also act as side creasers. are moved by a sliding motion into their acting position between the open ends of the several bags or cases c by pressing up on the handlef. The several dividing-bars f are connected to a rod, and on the ends of this rod are links f" f2, which are connected to the levers f f3, pivoted at 2 to the fixed framing of the machine. The two leversf3 f3 are connected together by the cross rod or handle f2 It will be seen by an examination of Figs. l, 2, 3, 4, and 5 that the ends of the rod carrying the several dividing-barsf work in the slotted plates f on the frame of the machine, the sliding motion of the said dividing-bars being limited by the slots in the said plates.

By means of the handle f and the levers and links represented the several dividingbars are simultaneously advanced between the open mouth of the several filled bags or packets c,or withdrawn from between them. Having in this way advanced the dividing-bars f, the several front creasers, g, and back creasers, g2, which consist of levers turning on the centers i i, are next brought simultaneously against the open ends of the bags or eases c by the action of the levers g5 g5 and links g g, the said levers being connected together by the handle g, and pivoted to the frame A at i. The first two creases or folds on opposite sides of the several bags are thus effected. The front and back creasers, g g2, are now returned to their noiracting position, Figs. l, 2, 5, 1l, and l2. rlhemold b is next moved in a lateral direction to the right hand by means of the end lever, h2, of the two levers h2 h3, the said levers being coupled together by the rod h and worked by the handle 7L", and are pivoted to the frame A at i3. (See Figs. 9, 1l, 13, l5.) As the mold b is moved as described the right hand fiaps of the several bagsin the said mold are drawn und-erneath the dividingbars f, which now act as side creasers, thus making the third crease or fold of each of the several bags. The front creasers, g, and back creasers, g2, are again advanced into their aeting position, the said creasers passing over the third creases or folds last made, as represented in Figs. 13 and 14, and the mold b is then moved to the left hand by the movement of the end lever, la, operated by the handle h, as seen in Figs. 15 and 16. The left-hand fiaps are thereby drawn underneath the front and back creasers, g g2, which now act as side creasers, thus effecting the fourth and final crease or fold in each'of the bags or cases. rIhe levers di being next pressed down by their handle d* beyond the position represented in Fig. 3, the platform d is raised, and the ends of the now'folded packets c are forced against the front and back creasers g g2, thereby squaring the ends and perfecting the figure of the packets. rlhe front and back creasers,g gand the dividing` bars f being returned to their non-acting positions, the distance-rod d of the levers d2 being released from the tooth el ofthe springcatch e, the platform d descends to its first position, as represented in Fig. l. The several Ybags or cases in the mould bare in this way simultaneously creased and the figure of the closed packets perfected. The mold Z) containing the packets is now passed to another part of the machine for ejecting the packets from the mold and conducting the ejected packets from the machine for rewrapping. This part of our invention will not be described here. as it will form the subject of a separate application.

Although our invention is principally applicable to the making up for sale of packets of powdered materials, yet it may also be aplOO plied to the making up for sale of packets of other connnoditiese-such as tea, seeds,and the like.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim isl. The combination, with a lnold carrying a series of pockets and a platform for supporting the same, of a series of sliding dividing-bars, f, to pass between said pockets, the levers f3, the connected cross-rod f, and the linksfconnecting levers f,and sliding bars f, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a mold carrying a series of pockets and a platform for sup porting the same, of the levers f, the crossrod f, the slotted`platesj'5, fixed to or forming part of the framing, the sliding dividingbars j', to pass between said pockets, a rod connecting said dividing-bars and moving in the slots of plate f5, and the links f 2, connecting the bars f and levers f, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a mold carrying a series of pockets and a platform for supporting the same, of the lever-creasers g g2, pivoted at i to the frame of the machine, the connected levers lgpivoted to the frame at i', and the links g y", connecting said creasers and levers, g5, substantially as described.

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4. The combination, with a reciprocating mold carrying a series of pockets and a platform for supporting the same, of the levers h2 h, pivoted to the frame and bearing against the ends of the mold,the rod 71 connecting the free ends of levers hl h, and a lever or handle for imparting motion to said levers, substantially as described.

5. The combination of the mold carrying the pockets, the front and back creasers, g g2, the sliding platform carrying the mold, and a lever to raise the platform to bring the pockets against said creasers, substantially as described.

. 6. The combination of the vertically-sliding platform7 the levers d2,for operating the same,

7. The combination of the vertically-movzo ing platform, the levers di, for operating the same, provided with a distance rod or pin, d, and a springlever catch, e, provided with an adj stable tooth, e2, for the distance-pin of the elevating-levers to engage with, substantially 2 5 as described.

JOHN TIOKLE. FREDERICK LEONARDT.

Witnesses:

GEORGE SHAW, RICHARD SKERRETT.

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